WEALTH AND VIRTUE by Istvan Hont (Editor), Michael Ignatieff (Editor) ( 9780521312141 )

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WEALTH AND VIRTUE
THE SHAPING OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT

By:

Istvan Hont (Editor), Michael Ignatieff (Editor)

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

30 January, 1986

Pages:

384

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A reassessment of the Scottish Enlightenment's remarkable contribution to modern economics and theories of capitalism.

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Wealth and Virtue reassesses the remarkable contribution of the Scottish Enlightenment to the formation of modern economics and to theories of capitalism. Its unique range indicates the scope of the Scottish intellectual achievement of the eighteenth century and explores the process by which the boundaries between economic thought, jurisprudence, moral philosophy and theoretical history came to be established. Dealing not only with major figures like Hume and Smith, there are also studies of lesser known thinkers like Andrew Fletcher, Gershom Carmichael, Lord Kames and John Millar as well as of Locke in the light of eighteenth century social theory, the intellectual culture of the University of Edinburgh in the middle of the eighteenth century and of the performance of the Scottish economy on the eve of the publication of the Wealth of Nations. While the scholarly emphasis is on the rigorous historical reconstruction of both theory and context, Wealth and Virtue directly addresses itself to modern political theorists and economists and throws light on a number of major focal points of controversy in legal and political philosophy.

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